[Wine] Re: msvcr80 and wine 0.9.12

[Louis Lenders]

Uwe Bonnes <bon <at> elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

> 
> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Pouech <no_spam_at_all_eric.pouech 
<at> wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
>     Eric> azathothgr wrote:
>     >> There is indeed a manifest file in the same directory, which contains
>     >> the dll filename, plus some other info that could be needed to access
>     >> the file, now that you mention it..  I think wine doesn't know to
>     >> look for it at the moment.. I renamed it and the problem remained
>     >> exactly the same, so I'd guess that the manifest file was ignored.
>     Eric> IMO, that's not something a file which isn't found, but rather the
>     Eric> loading mechanism checking the actual version of a DLL required
>     Eric> from the manifest, for which we return another version (or
>     Eric> checksum or signature). 
> 
> By commenting out FindActCtxSectionString(A|W) one can make the application
> start.
> 
> It's the problem of wine stub-implementing functions that are only
> implemented on the top-modern Win implementation. Most application test for
> the availability of the function with GetProcAddress and with out stub
> implementation they expect it to be fully implemented.
> 

FWIW: changing the return value from FALSE to TRUE in  
FindActCtxSectionStringW is enough as well to make the app start fine. I don't
know if that would be a
"proper" fix ,or might break other applications. Anyone an idea? (maybe a
question for the developmeent list...)